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I think it's one gun away from a dictatorship.
For power to be safely devolved to the people there need to be resilient structures in place to prevent a bad actor from simply wresting control by force.
Also, I think that while it solves societal issues well for the most personal of personal liberties it fails to properly add in protections from the liberties of others that may be imposed on you... i.e. a spouse trying to escape an abusive relationship will find sparse services to support them.
Lastly, I like trains. Trains don't happen in a reasonable time-frame without a strong centralized government. In the UK a coop recently opened a new train line... I think it took them 30+ years.
Why do you think this is incompatible with anarchism?
Why can't they simply vote on such laws being absolute, and hard to change, like we currently do in non-anarchist democracies?
Why did it take them 30+ years? Why couldn't an anarchist society simply vote to build a new train line?
There still must be a state with the capacity for violence to prevent strongman takeovers. Most descriptions of anarchism generally exclude the existence of a unified state and often exclude any form of non-individual violence.
What state apparatus would be preserved into anarchism that would provide these supports and how would it be funded? Additionally, how would we reconcile the lack of a state with the need for apparatuses to oppose individual suppression that are necessarily authoritarian and imbued with violence. Think first about a village of good people with one abusive relationship - that village can perhaps support the spouse in escaping that relationship. Think now about an evangelical or Mormon community with widespread and socially accepted spousal abuse - a solution to that abuse will almost never emerge internally. An outside authority imbued with the power of violence by a large populace is required to make that situation just - and that justice will come against the majority opinion of that locale.
Shit like this has happened in the past - most cult raids you've heard of were breaking up situations where everyone made a voluntary choice with the assistance of coercion and other disabling factors.
It took them 30+ years because they needed to privately fund it. I think you may be confusing anarchy with council republics or other devolved and federated forms of governments (like Lenin's idealized Soviets - not to be confused with the USSR).
It's important also to look at the costs of devolution of power. After the first Trump term human rights around reproductive care were devolved to be the decision of the states - that devolution of power resulted in less freedoms for individuals.
People like to focus on the "I can do..." freedoms in US political thought but I think some of our most important freedoms are "I can refuse to have ... done to me" freedoms - and those two freedoms are always in opposition. Someone wants to not be murdered and someone else wants to murder them - no matter the outcome someone is having their freedom restrained.
Yeah, against the state, but not a government, which in anarchist philosophy are two different things.
None, but plenty of government apparatuses would exist with funding through taxes...
Usually through rotational authority, again, this shows you haven't read any anarchist philosophy.
rotational. authority.
no anarchist philosophers supported cult-like systems.
Their need to privately fund it only exists in a society that isn't anarchist. I'm not confusing anarchy, I've read my anarchist philosophy, and could talk to you about the beliefs of bakunin, proudhon, and kropotkin, there's others, but those are the basic ones.
Sure, it is important, but I don't see what that has to do with our discussion.
yup, that's true, don't know what it has to do with anything though.